I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

Chapter 183 (2/10, requesting monthly votes) A ​​ghoul's memory packed with information

Upon hearing about the mixed-race creature from Innsmouth, Evan's eyes lit up: "Can it secrete bodily fluids?"

Armitage looked completely bewildered.

He simply couldn't understand Ivan's thought process.

Normally, shouldn't this guy ask what dangers are involved, what's special about the baby, and what precautions are needed?

Why did this guy suddenly bring up this topic?

He reached out and touched Ivan's forehead: "You don't have a fever, are you? Starting to talk nonsense?"

Evan coughed and said with a straight face, "It's mainly because the Deep Ones' bodily fluids are too fishy!"

"I'm worried that getting on the train will attract unnecessary attention."

Armitage nodded knowingly, then sighed, "Your thinking jumps around too much, kid."

"Don't worry! This child hasn't shown many characteristics of a Deep One yet; he looks no different from an ordinary child."

"You need to pay more attention to this mother."

"She's not in good mental condition, so please be very careful on the road!"

Armitage sighed: "After all, any mother would be prone to a breakdown after giving birth to such a freak."

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Ivan nodded in agreement, then asked curiously, "Is this a mission from the Healing Church, to send it to them?"

Armitage shook his head: "This is a mission from the University of Michigan. The main purpose of sending them over is to see if we can treat this poor mother and child."

"After all, this mother is a student at the University of Michigan."

Ivan immediately raised his eyebrows: "A student from the University of Michigan?"

Armitage nodded: "Jordy James, a sophomore at the University of Michigan, majoring in archaeology."

"During an archaeological excavation, the girl accidentally touched a relic from the deep sea."

"Then she seemed to connect with the existence of the deep sea in her dream, but she didn't make a sound about it."

"Then, during a trip home to visit family, I boarded a train to Innsmouth, and by the time we realized it, it was too late."

"When the school teachers and students arrived in Innsmouth, the girl was already in a daze, sitting there holding the child."

He looked at Evan: "It only took seven days from start to finish."

Ivan, already accustomed to this bizarre world, asked curiously, "Are you sure this child is hers?"

Armitage said, "After the student was brought back to school, Professor Morgan's team completed the psychiatric evaluation and confirmed that the child was indeed James's child."

"It seems that although this child has the bloodline of the Deep Ones, it has not yet manifested itself."

"We know that the Healing Church has a special method to suppress it."

"Because this child's bloodline is connected to his mother's, as long as the Deep One bloodline in the child is suppressed, his mother will gradually return to normal."

Evan asked curiously, "Doctor, are you sure the Healing Church is reliable?"

Armitage smiled: "I know what your concerns are."

His tone was tinged with helplessness: "The Healing Church does indeed conduct some rather insane experiments."

"But it is undeniable that the Healing Church has a great deal of authority in extraordinary healing, and the University of Michigan has a certain degree of cooperation with the Healing Church."

"Two other students were also there to protect James this time."

"Now that you're here, you might as well lend a hand to prevent any accidents from happening."

"The school sent two apprentices to escort James this time."

"Although these two have been through some things, they don't have much combat experience. With an expert like you in charge this time, we can be sure of success."

Ivan grinned. "Aren't you afraid I'll be the biggest surprise?"

Armitage laughed and said, "If that's the case, then this will be a good experience for you."

"Once you become an expert, you need to make full use of your extraordinary abilities and become completely familiar with their nature and how to control them."

"After you became an expert, you must have gained a sense of being able to envelop something within your extraordinary abilities, right?"

Ivan nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes! I almost forgot to ask you about that."

Armitage said, "This is the priority of the extraordinary, which is also the suppression of personality."

"You can use your own extraordinary ability to suppress the extraordinary abilities of those of lower rank than you, rendering them completely powerless to resist."

After thinking for a moment, Evan asked, "I fought against experts before, and I didn't feel that feeling of being enveloped."

Armitage sighed: "Because you're a complete brute!"

"All your extraordinary abilities are now focused on strengthening yourself, and then using the effects of various potions to simply crush your opponent with brute force."

"You didn't have any spiritual connection, nor did you engage in any competition of extraordinary qualities."

Ivan glanced to the upper left and thought for a moment.

The four experts he has killed are Old Alcott, Treant Myron, Martin, and Chariot.

Old Alcott used the threads formed by those desire spirits to suppress himself, but was then overwhelmed by copper and his powerful physique.

The tree spirit Mellen was completely subdued by his own plant viruses.

Since the essence of the copper plague force is a virus, there is no such thing as spiritual overlay.

The giant ghoul chariot itself had almost no outward-facing extraordinary characteristics, so the ice-spraying effect had no effect on it, and it was torn apart by its own hands.

The same goes for Martin.

Although the sheer number of skeletal and metal spikes they controlled was intimidating, those things couldn't break through their defenses at all.

Taking advantage of the opponent's flight and his belief that no one could hit him, he rushed up and punched him to pieces.

After thinking it over, Ivan grinned: "That's really true."

Armitage chuckled and sighed, "There's not much of a fundamental difference between an expert and an apprentice right after their promotion."

"But as you gain a deeper understanding of extraordinary abilities, and as those abilities begin to merge, you will be able to exert an overwhelming effect on your apprentices."

Evan immediately recalled his first encounter with old Alcott, when he was completely bewildered by the other's desire spirit, and nodded in deep understanding. After the long lesson ended, Armitage took Evan out for an affordable meal.

Although his physique reached eleven points again after this breakthrough, Ivan did not eat freely for fear of scaring Dr. Armitage.

I only spent three dollars on inexpensive food.

Fortunately, the restaurant owner, who lived near the museum, seemed to be a worldly person.

Facing the stack of various plates in front of Ivan, he nodded calmly and then quietly tidied up and left.

After the two left the restaurant, Armitage sighed: "Kid! You need to get back to work, or you won't even be able to afford food if you keep going like this."

Ivan sighed, "That's what I think too."

Armitage then arranged for Ivan to stay in a temporary room on the inner side of the third floor.

The entire guest room is not large, about nine square meters.

The decor was quite ordinary, with wooden floors and beige wallpaper on both sides.

Inside, there's a table, a bed, a wardrobe, and prepared bedding.

Neat and simple.

The time that followed passed quickly.

When it was 8 p.m., after Evan ate two dollars' worth of food, the spiritual shock buff on his body finally subsided.

Feeling his mind return to normal, Evan happily pounded his chest with both hands, declaring his triumphant return.

Armitage was not with him during this process.

The old gentleman continued to lean against the counter in front of him, reading his book intently.

It seemed that the old man would feel uncomfortable if he didn't read for even a moment.

With the help of a true big shot by his side, Evan seized the opportunity to unlock the memories belonging to the ghoul wizard.

Soon, a multitude of scenes gradually appeared before Ivan.

The first scene shows the ghoul wizard worshipping something.

But it seems to have nothing to do with the skeletal saint, and its appearance is unclear.

From this memory, Ivan learned that the ghoul wizard's name was Pru.

Pru is a native, naturally born ghoul, born in the Dreamland.

He had a strong grasp of his spirituality from birth and was then chosen to become a ghoul wizard.

The various scenes progressed rapidly, and Ivan soon saw a pair of familiar hands—Klaus's hands.

Klaus gave Prue several black bone fragments.

The entire bone fragment was engraved with special characters in blood.

Ivan didn't recognize these characters; they must belong to the ghoul race.

But Ivan learned the contents of these words from Pru's memories.

This is a document about the birth of the Bone Child and some potion recipes.

"Holy crap! Are these guys really plotting something this big?" Evan exclaimed in surprise upon seeing this.

According to the memories, the Bone Saint is a son of God who inherited the power of the Ghoul King.

Upon its birth, it will immediately possess the status of a transcendent being, with immense power.

However, cultivating a skeletal saint is naturally not so easy.

Due to the physical limitations of ghouls, there is a limit to the amount of power they can absorb from the ghoul king.

This plan involves using various potions and magical elixirs to temporarily encapsulate the power they cannot withstand within magical potions.

These potions were then infused into the body of a sufficiently powerful mother through various magical arrays.

Finally, through a method unknown to Pru, it was transformed into the Bone Saint.

Prue didn't know much about the detailed plan.

His main responsibility was the creation of potions that could contain more power.

Subsequent memories are quite monotonous and repetitive.

Pru, Martin, and the tank formed a trio, constantly searching for various materials and then experimenting with and optimizing them.

However, a large number of experiments ended in failure.

The power of the gods is too great; ordinary materials cannot contain it.

They even managed to obtain a large amount of healing church buffers through their relationship with Sap.

Unfortunately, the buffer's effect is incompatible with their ghoul attributes.

The aura of the Ghoul King was even neutralized by the buffer after being injected into it, eventually turning into a black, gelatinous mass.

Frustrated, they began looking for new solutions.

During this process, they also established contact with the Red King Laboratory.

Unfortunately, that side doesn't seem to have much to do with the Bone Saint, and the background of everything is blurred.

The scene moves forward rapidly.

Later, in a battle, Pru killed a Witcher in the Dream Realm.

The Witcher is a male who wears a snake-shaped pendant on his chest.

The level was apprentice, and I couldn't see their faces or know what had happened.

Anyway, after Pru ​​killed the other party, he inadvertently thought that the blood of the Witcher could be used to buffer the effects of the potion.

So he quickly began experimenting with the blood of a Witcher.

The result greatly encouraged Pru.

After several hundred attempts and a long period of optimization, it was finally completed.

Ultimately, this allowed Pru to obtain a completely new potion recipe.

Pru called it: the buffer potion.

The main ingredient in the potion recipe is the blood of a witcher, and the auxiliary ingredients are rosemary, white sea salt, and lead.

This potion doesn't offer any functional enhancements or strengthen the body in any way.

However, it can withstand a large amount of power internally.

Pru quickly discovered that a standard-sized buffer potion could hold a volume comparable to the entire capacity of an apprentice-level ghoul.

He immediately reported this shocking discovery to Klaus.

He couldn't hear what Klaus said next, but he could sense that Klaus was quite excited.

As they delved deeper into their research, they discovered that the higher the quality of a Witcher's blood, the more power it could hold.

They began to target and hunt down expert-level witchers.

They discovered that expert-level witchers have more than five times the blood volume of normal apprentice-level witchers.

It was during this process that Ivan overheard Pru and the others' dissatisfaction with Klaus.

So they secretly investigated Klaus's weaknesses under the guise of searching for the skeletal saint.

Evan learned from this that Klaus now had two rather serious weaknesses.

One is a weak meal, like a vampire eating silver.

He also weakened the dollar.

Seeing the US dollar is like seeing one's creditor, which can trigger panic.

Seeing this, Ivan couldn't help but grin and say smugly, "What an unexpected bonus! Next time, I'll see how I utterly destroy you, you old bastard."

As his memories unfolded, Evan discovered that their partners were quite complex.

In subsequent experiments, when optimizing the buffer potion, they received assistance from a research institute called the Institute of Excellence.

In the process of developing the Fog Brain Plague, they also received assistance from a mysterious organization called the Hand of the Father.

Ultimately, the reason they were able to carve out a middle ground in that underground area to use as their base was...

During this process, they also received help from a group called the Holy Spirit Black Goat Organization.

Since these organizations didn't go too far and only provided some assistance, Ivan didn't even see what the other party looked like.

I only heard Pru mention it briefly.

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